The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-05
OUR FARMERS CLUBS.
What our Farmers are Doing and How
the Work of Organizing is Progressing.
TRINITY CLUB.

TRINITY CLUB.
Subject-Agicultural Clubs, County
Institutes and the Convention.
DR.. Joseph Bird.-These are GER
tainlv fertile themes for every enter
prsng farmer | have certainly
been benefited by my attendance at
the club. We compare notes and
experience-ours success and failures
It makes us read more, and calcu-
late closer, in order to discuss the
many question presented by the
Club. | have myself put questions
and have invariably received help
and satisfaction after putting them
to the test. | am satisfied that the
policy of following the successful is
a safe one You all remember that
some years ago we discussed at sew
eral Of our meetings the subject of
manure making and it's application.
Its effects are evident in all this sec
ton. In all my reading and my
own experience | have seen nothing
that improves upon our plans.
Farmers live more isolated than any
other class. They work on the
same old line of thought-they
ought to be pulled out of the old
ruts. Therefore let them mingle
more with each other Ireland is
specially adapted to the dairy busi-
ness, and it is a large industry there
but for the want Of skilIful operatives
they have thus far failed to produce
an article that commands the best
prices. However, | notice that they
are now establishing special training
schools wherein the dairymen may
be instructed. 1t is we'll to cultivate
the mind but at the same time the
hand must not be forgotten.
While the State is making such
efforts to induce outsiders to come
among us we are negIectingto to devel-
op and bring up those who are
Already here, and many Of these
become disheartened and leave
J. B. Frazier.-I attend club
meetings so seldom that it looks
like inconsistency in me to speak of
its benefits. | remember going
with my father some fifteen years,
ago to some club meetings. The
Impressions made on me then, some
of them at least, are vivid to-day. |
am satisfied that every farmer should
atteni such meetings
\. Parker-I am convinced that
every intelligent farming community
should establish and maintain a
farmers club. Every farmer in the
community should feel it his duty
to attend each and every meeting
he possibly can | was as busy and
hard pushed in work last summer
as any one. But | made arrange
ments to attend the club meetings
twice month, and feel now like the
Time was profitably spent. On my
way to one of our meetings during
inc busy season, | was asked by one
o' my nelghbors in passing, GLOW
can you spare the time from your
work to attend these meetings?' |
replied that a man should not be
4c'nated entirely by selfish motives.
60 tor my own good, and besides
ieeI 1t to be MY duty to help sus-
'"1' t 'he club for the general good.
AS good citizens we owe this to
i"e' ;~e other. | am earnestly seeking
nf rf'ol ''"'lon and gladly avail myself
' !" V e1 cry Opportunity to obtain it. 1t
g i''' ma in our association with
fnI %'a''"r AMI reading on topics we
a,'I "."hN impracticable theories
' nnt many articles that we should
cb,, ''pI BY concentrated effort
tooa,l ''.S' state and society are held
f.n, a>'N Il. Wood.-I am not a
d"I1 I',l'ef "nt | am a native of Ran
~ O'l''' at brought up on farm till
We. .'.S ''d, left the county 25
o.. ,"@". , have been ashamed
'ar"3 ing of my county until
ara EeHfs ago. Other counties
mo mon cad but none have mada
| dolnL III 1ProVement of late than Ran
| has coa, ine wave of Improvement
! ss 50 eome from the northwest corner.
tho ta marked evidences of this in
lhg, but more in the imple-